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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Digging It Out.

An old Alabamian, who discovered the Birmingham ore away back before the war, took some specimens of it to New York and displayed them to Peter Cooper. "We can take that ore right off the ground" said the Alabamian proudly. 'I don't believe it," replied MT. Hewitt, the present Mayor, who was standing by in the capacity of MT: Cooper's son-in-l law. "Why not9" asked the discoverer of ore. Because if you can," said MT. Hewitt, who was younger and little plainer of speech then than now, ''why the blazes don't you do its There's money in every ounce of it. / Of late the Alabamians are following Hewitt's advice-are digging the ore out by the thousands of tons. They find it pays them, too.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Smoking Under Water.

Says an expert swimmer in the New York Sun: 'Tt looks very strange to see man go under water with lighted cigar in his mouth, smoke calmly at the bottom, and come to the surface with the cigar burning as nicely as if he were smoking in his easy chair. Apparently he deties all natural laws, but of course, he doesn't. It is a simple trick, but it requires practice. Just as l throw my self backward to go down, I flip the cigar end for end with my tongue and upper lip, and get the lighted end in my mouth, closing my lips water tight around it. A little slippery elm juice gargled before going in prevents any ac- cidental burning of the mouth. Going slowly down backward, I lie at full length ou the bottom of the tank and blow smoke through the cut end of my cigar. Just as I reach the surface again, another flip reverses the cigar, and there am smoking calmly. The reversing is done so quickly that nobody notices if ''
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
THE WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF
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 . all Points.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE OLD
 WORLD AND THE NEW.
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HEMMED IN BY SNOW DRIFTS
Fifteen Hundred Passengers Stalled
 on Canada Raod.

A dispatch from Moncton, N. B., contains news of the stalled trains on the northern di- vision of the Intercolonial Railway. A break has been made from St. Flavien to Campbell ton, and two blocked trains between those points are working their way out through 8 tunnel of snow. Fully 1,5OO passengers, in- cluding TOO immigrants, are halted on their route, and the railway authorities are straining every nerve to get food to the passengers and the 800 workmen who are trying to dig them out. One train is at River du Loup, another at St. Luce, and another at St. Flavien.
 All the northern. mails from Prince Edward, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia are at St. Flavien, and seven mail clerks are guarding them. Fully one-half of the conductors, bag gage masters, and express managers that run on the line are hemmed in at this point.
 A despatch from Newcastle, five hours ride from Moncton, says that the Quebec night train has worked its way through. It has seven cars, all loaded with passengers who have been delayed by the storm of the week, exhausted and worn by their long sojourn amid snow drifts and frost. They are freed at last only by the super human efforts of l, 800 men who have worked night and day. The shovellers were so ex- hausted that P. S. Archibald, chief engineer, could collect for the scene. He arrived at Campbellton, pushed his way through to St. Flavien, and broke the blockade.
 People have no idea what an amount of snow there is on the New Brunswick borders. In order to clear the track of snow five terraces were made from the rail to he summit of the bank and each line of men threw to the ter race above, and in many places snow drifts are thirty feet in depth During their weeks so- journ in the drifts passengers endured great hardships, although the railway authorities did all they could to make them comforta- ble. It was fortunate for the women and in taking coal from cars on the sidings to sup ply them with fuel. The main line has been opened and & channel cut through the snow at enormous labor and expense, and yet the work is but half done. Every branch is block ed, every car on the siding showed under, and it will take more than week to get the road in any kind of running order
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
MARK TWAIN AND PROF. LOISETTE
Tho Famous HuB:orist Tells How Iro1cs- sOr LOlsctte Taught Him to 1nl-
 prove His lslemory.,
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 The success which Professor Loiscttc's Meul- ory School, No. AH Fifth Ave-, \. 4., is meet ing does not occasion any surprise to those ac- ouainted with it's advantages, and the hearty tndorse ement given by prominent mon to tho Professors methods of ilnprov ng the memory are @ guarantee that these adyantages Will soon become known tar and wide Professor Loisette is doing noble work for the metrop- oils. College pro, essors generally and the ecst known physicians of the country arc in hearty accord with Pi o essor Loisette. Writers. laW, yers. musicians ana representatives ot all classes, both profess oaai and business men, a e pupils in the sca ocl or are learning by cor respo dence. and arc quickly discovering what they have never before understood, how re- teaiive the memory may be made One ea- son is that he uses no mae hlnery, loc a tues UT other devices of artidcia! systems. Mari T ain nas been pupit O. the Professor. ana this is what he says about h m: 'Profess or Lcisette did not create a memory for mo; no; nothins of the kind And ret nc dhi tor me ti1dt amounted 60 the some thing-hc proved to me z that already 3ldd a memory, a thing when J was not aware of til then. had before peen 1a able, like most people, 10 store up aAq ioSe things in the dark cellar of my memory, put ht soued me o1c to light ,tp the cellar It is the dl l. ference, to chunge the figure, between having money where you can't eollsct it, and haet'sg t It Xo,;p ppchst The in1ormntion cost me oaI Ntt!a, ysS value It at rrodifieu. nsurs."
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
LABOR NOTES.

The carpenters working on the Cotton Ex- change building at Augusta, Ga., have struck for nine hours. It is reported that the strike will become general.
 composed of iron workers, has requested the proprietors of all iron establishments in Read- ing to grant an increase of ten per cent in wages, on the ground that the employees should be benefited by the prosperous cond . ton of the iron trade. The proprietors of the Reading Iron Works announced an advance averaging four per cent.
 The trouble between the Knights of Labor and the Miners Amalgamated Association may prevent settlement of the wages question for the coke workers this week.
 It is not pl obable that the price of iron or the rate of wages of iron workers will go any higher than at present during 1887.
 The cotton handlers strike in New Orleans continues. The men have not been ordered to work by their employers, and the matter is as far from adjustment as ever.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
SAFE HEAT AND LIGHT.
The First Train in the World to be Warmed and Lighted Without Fire,

The Boston express train that rolled into New York the other evening was the latest production of the Boston and Albany Railroad shops at Allston, and was lighted by electric ity and heated by steam. For the first time in the history of railroading the world over' 8 complete train so lighted and so heated has been successfully run. The train a reg ular one, and as fast as possible all the rolling stock will be so arranged. There is no oil burning except in the headlight, and the twenty incandescent electric lamps that are ranged in double rows along the high ceiling of the cars effectively light up the beautiful markings of the natural wood. Each light is of sixteen-candle power, and the steady glow is fed from the storage batteries of the Julien system. Newspapers may be read with ease, and the cars are cheer full and pleasant. There are sixty storage cells to each car, placed under the floor between the trucks, and they may be charged with cleo tricity while the train is laid up on side track in Boston. They will hold twelve hours SUD- ply of the electric fluid so as to make the round trip to New York and return, and with time to spare. The steam heating device is what is known as the Martin system, and consists of an arrangement of pipes which take live dry steam from the dome of the locomotive and conduct it through the cars so as to distribute the heat thoroughly.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Fort Worth and Denver City R. R.

All the money needed for the extension of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad to the western line of Texas, and for the building of the road from that point to Pueblo, Col, has been subscribed and the work will be rap- idly pushed. It is expected that by July 1 the southern end viii be finished to a connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, in Carson County, Texas, and by December the State line will be reached. Meanwhile it is ex- pected that the 100 miles of road from Pueblo south to Trinidad will be finished.
 The road is now completed 250 miles from Fort Worth to Quannah, Texas, and 138 miles from Denver to Pueblo. The road when con- pleted will run S10 miles from Denver to Fort Worth, and will have about 50 miles of branches or feeders" At Fort Worth It will connect with three competing roads to Calves ton and two to New Orleans. The main line will tap four important coal fields to the north and reach the lumber region to the south.
 The line will bring Denver and the mineral fields of the whole Rocky Mountain region 1,OOO miles nearer to tide water and bring tho transportation charges between Denver and New York down to the level of those between New York and Chicago. The plan is to con- solidate the three divisions in which the road Is being built into tho Fort Worth and Denver, making shs .hafss of the latt I the ''parsnt stock"
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
RepOrted Loss of Life,

St. Johns, N. F., is very greatly agi tated by the reported loss at sea of the seal ing steamer Eagle of that port, with all hands, some two hundred men. There are ugly stories told about the condition of the steam CTS boilers when she sailed. It is said that they were plainly unsafe, and that the vessel should never have been allowed to go to sea. The seal fisheries, as far as heard from, are no better than last year, when the catch was smaller than for many years. The blow in ficted by the reported disaster has brought eri he'd colony, where thousands escaped star vation during the winter only by government aid
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
PROCTER'S NEW HOME.
T he Eminent Astronomer will Study
 Stars in Florida

Professor Richard A. Proctor the eminent astronomer and scientist, is to be a citizen hereafter of Florida. He is there now and will remove his family from St. Joseph, Mo-, the coming month. He has been given a ten acre tract of land on Orange Lake and has bought ten acres more.
 <. ''Ihe lower atmosphere in Florida" said Professor Procter, in giving reasons for his preference for this State, ''is so clear that constcllations stand out in wonderful bril- liancy."
 Florida is nearer England than Missouri, and he will receive his English mails sooner. The State proposes to build S1O,OOO observa- tory.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
A Chinese Mau.Of. Wars Crew.

Some of the English men-of- war on the China station are manned to large extent by Chinamen. In regatta which came off at Hong Kong, one of the fleet entered an eight-oared galley manned wholly by Chinamen, who beat all the boats of the squadron over mile course. The Chinamen are said to have rowed q longer and slower stroke than any of their competitors, and their boat has never been beaten vet.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Coercion Condemned.

In the Illinois House resolution was adopted oondemning the proposed Irish coer- English Government toward Ireland, and ex- tending sympathy and encouragement to Will liam Ewart Gladstone and Charles Stuart Par nell in their crusade against oppressive land unjust laws, and for their faithful endeavors to hasten, by constitutional methods, hsttax Rovsrnnent fer Ireland.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Senator Jones' Mines

Naval officers who have recently returned from the Alaska coast say that the reports of the richness of Senator Jones' mines in that Territory have not been overes4imated. There IS said to be ore enough in sight to last life- time The further the work progresses the richer the deposits become For example. when the shaft was first dug the ore panned out about s2o to the ton. It has gradually increased to $40 a ton and is expected to go still higher The stock is now paying diYi- dend of 800 per cent. year.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
More Than She Bargained For.

She-Well, 1 declare! l never saw man with so little taste as you have.
 Hc-My dear you forget something when you talk like that,
 she.-Forget! forget nothing. What do you mean9
 He mean, darling, that you fail to remember that chose you, of all the women in tho world, te hs my wife, -- RuRalo Express.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
NO ASSESSMENTS.

Anyone insuring therefore for the current year will only Do required to pay cash pre- mium, which will cover all liability. In case of loss it Is provided in tho charter that if it cannot be amicably adjusted, it shall be referred to two disinterested persons, one to be chosen by each party, and if they cannot agree, they shall choose . third, and the de- cision thus rendered shall be final
 Information and circulars may be obtained by addressing
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Reduced to Skeleton by Diseass, and R. stored to Health soiM Dr. Par-
 dse's Remedy.
Wilson, Niagara Go NY

Wilson, Niagara Co, NY.
 GENrLEMEN:-In April, 1888, I-was pros. trated by a severe attack of iniiammatory rheumatism and was confined to my bed four months. was attended by the best medical skill, but rapidly grew worse until was TO. duced to mere skeleton.
 Tho disease had gone to my lungs and to the region of my heart, and I was finally given up by the physicians, who said I could Nvs but a few hours at most, and that all they could do was to make me as easy as posuibls by killing the pain by frequent injections of morphine. I was finally advised by friend to take Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy. Upon being asked as to giving it to me, the physician said: "I have no faith in patent medicines, but give it to him; it will not hurt him."
 was then so near dead that my limbs were cold below the knees, and a numb sensation began to creep over my body, and I suffered with great pain in my chest and about my heart. After had taken the first few does experienced more pain than before, for it seemed to drive the pain from the vital parts toward the extremties I continued to take, it according to directions Four days aftsr. the physician who gave me up called to see me- and said I was much better. In about four weeks could sit up; I then gained very fast and became as well as ever.
 CHAS o. BARNUM.
 Brother of D. C. Barnum, Attorney, 19e Powers' Block, Rochester, to whom persons can refer.
 Ask your druggist for Dr. Pardee's Remedy and take no other. Price, $1 per bottle; dx bottles, $5.
 Pardee Medicine Co.,. Rochester, N, Y.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Builds Up the system

"I gladly attest the peculiar building-up power of Hoods Sarsaparilla. For some time have been un- able to attend to business but finally at the request of friend used part of a bottle of Hoods Sarsa parilla which gave tone and strength to my system and made me feel young when . boy."-GRAN- WILLIE T. WooDs, GA and G Lodge Street, Cincinnati.
 NB.-n you have mads up your mind to get Hool,s Sarsaparilla do not take any other.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Day and Night

During an acute attack of Bronchitis, a ceaseless tickling in the throat, and an. sxhausting, hacking cough, afflict the sufferer. Sleep is banished, and great prostration follows. This disease is also attended with Hoarseness, and some- times Loss of Voice. It is liable to be- come chronic, involve the lungs, and terminate fatally. Ayers Cherry Pecto- ral affords speedy relief and cure in cases of Bronchitis. It controls the disposition to cough, and induces refreshing sleep.
 have been practising physician for twenty-four years, and, for the past twelve, have suffered from annual at tacks of Bronchitis. After exhausting all the usual remedies
 Without Relief,
 tried Ayers Cherry Pectoral. It effected speedy cure.-G. Stoveail, NJ. D., Carrollton, Miss.
 Ayers Cherry Pectoral is decidedly the best remedy, within my knowledge, for chronic Bronchitis, and all lung diseases. - M. A. Rust, Nj. D., South Paris, Me.
 I was attacked, last winter. with a severe Cold. which grew worse and settled on my Lungs. By night sweats l was reduced almost to skeleton. My Cough was incessant, and l frequently spit blood. My physician told me to give up business, or I would not live a month. After taking various remedies without relief, was finally
 Cured By Using
 two bottles of Ayers Cherry Pectoral. l am now in perfect health. and able to resume business, after having been pro- nounced incurable with Consumption $. F. Henderson, Saulsburgh. Penn.
 For years 1 was in a decline. I had weak lungs, and suffered from Bron- chitis and Catarrh. Ayers Cherry Pee toral restored mo to health, and l have been for a long time comparatively wig orous. In case of a sudden cold always resort to the Pectoral, and find speedy relief.- Edward E. Curtis, Rutland, Vt.
 Two years ago suffered from severe Bronchitis. Tho physician attending me became fearful that the disease would terminate in Pneumonia. After trying various medicines, without benefit, he prescribed Ayers Cherry Pectoral, which relieved me at once. I continued to take this medicine, and was cured. Ernest Colton, Logansport, Ind.
 Ayers Cherry Pectoral, Prepared by pr. J. c. Aver < Co.,, Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. Price Sl; six bottles, s5.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

The cigars smoked ill this country in year would reach nine times around the world if placed end to end. But let nobody take that as text for . sermon against tobacco for three-fourths of them were mostly cabbage prObably
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

Whether large things are more dangerous than small ones depends entirely on circum- stances. Now, for instance, tiger is a million times larger than a hornet, and yet if both were boxed up, so that only their tails were visible, anybody would rather undertake to pull tho tail of the tiger than that of the hnrnet
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

A bottle of Red Star Cough Cure made . thorough and permanent cure of . cold so severe that I could not talk, says MT. J. P. Roach, assistant superintendent Now YorH Central Sleeping Car Comuany.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

WORK is not an end in itself. "The end of york;" said Aristotle, "is to en- joy leisure;" or, as the Minstrel hath it, "the end and the reward of toll is rest.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

IF YOU have numbness in arms or limbs, heart skips beats. thumps or futters, or you -Dr. Kilmer's OCEAN WEED regulates, re- NeYes. correCts and cures,
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

Hon. M. A. Foran, of Ohio, membec of House of Representatives, writes that St. Jacobs Oil relieved him of acute bodily pains.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

A bribe puts the judges eyes out, for bribt never speaks the truth.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

pr. Sage's Catarrh Re~ edy cures when every other so-cal.ed remedy fails.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

Tn which you are wallowI g, on account of those diseases peculiar to You, madam, and wi have robbed you ot the rosy hue on ot can easily get cut of. Dr. Pierce's "Favorite Plescription,"' will free you from all such troutles, and soon recall the rose-tint of health t, your cheek, and the elasticity to your ste 1t is most pc. feet spscitic for ali the weaknesses and Irregularities peculiar to oar sey. 1t C. res alteration. d!spla> ements, ln- moves the tendency to cancerous affections and corrects all unnatural discharges. By druggists.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
s'The Slough of Dependency"

A scorpion stings with his tail, saucy want with his eye.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

LYMAN CUNNING, Preddent
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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Hoods sarsapariIia

Have made it the most popular medicine to take in the spring. It cures scrofula, salt rheum and all hunlors, biliousness. dyspepsia, headache kidney and liver complaints, catarrh. and all affection caused or promoted by low state of the system or impure blood Don't put it on but take Hoods Bar saparilla now. It will do you good,
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp sons Eye water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

"RoYAL GLUE" mends anything! Broker China, Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs X Gro
Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
Immediate Relief.

Children take it without any trouble It is the Great Cbildren's Remedy. In chronic coughs (even consumption) great relief is ofsrn found.
 ''Dr. J. H. Hero's Cough Syrup is the best I ever tried."-James Pickup, Editor Spen- cer (Mass.) Sun.
 "1 have an obstinate chronic throat trouble, of long standing, have tried many prominent remedies but have found nothing which be- gins to compare with Dr. J. H Hero's Cough Syrup It never fails to relieve me. Have used it years. ."-Horace Kendall, Auctioneer, Min St., Worcester, Mass.
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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06

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Connecticut western news., 1887-04-06
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 Damage by HAIL.

The Company was chartered by tho legisla. ture of Connections, in 1880, and has been do- ing business for six years.
 It has fully met the object of itS organiza- tion, and has in each year, although the losses have been many and great, paid them an in full. and has . small surplus on hand.
 Tue plan of insuring with . cash premium alone was adopted in 1884 (no note being re- quired). and it has proved satisfactory and successful to all,-there can be